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our james trough,less a foreign policy expert. and tara mauler she is a research fellow at the new american foundation, her focus including diplomacy, and terrorism, and as befocus on the flag that has now been unfurled, it was unfurled this morning at sun rise on the south side of the pent upon, that of course being the side of the pentagon that was struck by the terrorists in washington. this day, defined both of your careers. and i will start with you. tell me what you think as you look back 12s year later about the impact this had on your life. >> well, for one thing i wouldn't be sitting here today commenting on foreign policy, because after that is when i first started doing internship related to security and terrorism. >> what did you want to be that before that? >> more domestic issues than i started taking more course work related to terrorism in the middle east, as well as some work back then on counter insurgency as the iraq war started to occur. so i think for my generation, eastern city of benghazi 9/11 and the respon
our james trough,less a foreign policy expert. and tara mauler she is a research fellow at the new american foundation, her focus including diplomacy, and terrorism, and as befocus on the flag that has now been unfurled, it was unfurled this morning at sun rise on the south side of the pent upon, that of course being the side of the pentagon that was struck by the terrorists in washington. this day, defined both of your careers. and i will start with you. tell me what you think as you look back...
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he's hoping one of congress' most intractable foreign policy hawks will help sell the idea of a u.s. military intervention in syria to a nation deeply scarred by more than a decade of war. having announced over the weekend that he'll seek congressional approval for military strikes against the assad regime, obama is now trying to rally support from the public and congress. >> "vodaphone" says its's in advance talks to sell its 45-percent stake of verizon wireless back to the cellphone service provider for 130-billion dollars. verizon would own its wireless business outright after buying the stake back. vodaphone says there is no certainty that a deal will be reached. the change isn't expected to have much of an effect on verizon consumers or on it's operations. >> silicon valley's high tech firms are fighting to keep the patent office open. even though the area's patent office is supported by patent fees, not tax payers, it has still fallen victim to the automatic budget cuts better known as sequestration. the silicon valley leadership group says the decision "makes absolutely no sen
he's hoping one of congress' most intractable foreign policy hawks will help sell the idea of a u.s. military intervention in syria to a nation deeply scarred by more than a decade of war. having announced over the weekend that he'll seek congressional approval for military strikes against the assad regime, obama is now trying to rally support from the public and congress. >> "vodaphone" says its's in advance talks to sell its 45-percent stake of verizon wireless back to the...
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the white house has had quite a year, from foreign policy showdowns to fiscal crises to health care debaffles. and peter baker says he saw it coming last winter. call it second termitis. >> by his own calculation he's got eight months, 12 months, 16 months at most to make his mark. so he has to come out of the box fast. and energetic. and he's coming out on guns, immigration, fiscal policy. and energy. and that's -- he needs to push the other side into deferring to his judgment while he has the opportunity to do it. gwen: how did that work for him, peter? >> well, it's now of course 10 months later. and i think none of the things we mentioned there has been signed into law. gwen: not immigration. >> not guns. not immigration. not -- moved some on energy in terms of executive action. and they'll argue on guns. they did some executive action as well. but nothing of the things they sent to the hill. jobs and most importantly, i think, the president talked during the election last year about the fever breaking. this idea that after he was reelected there wouldn't be the incentive on the part of t
the white house has had quite a year, from foreign policy showdowns to fiscal crises to health care debaffles. and peter baker says he saw it coming last winter. call it second termitis. >> by his own calculation he's got eight months, 12 months, 16 months at most to make his mark. so he has to come out of the box fast. and energetic. and he's coming out on guns, immigration, fiscal policy. and energy. and that's -- he needs to push the other side into deferring to his judgment while he...
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so this would present a severe crisis for the islamic republic's foreign policy. and hezbollah right now is feeling a lot of pressure because of support of the syrian regime, losing a lot of credibility on the arab streets, if you will. the arab spring is also funded militia in the islamic republic's foreign policy narrative. for years, saying it supports the average man and woman on the street in the face of what it termed to be u.s. and israeli imperialism. support for autocratic arab regimes. by those regimes are falling apart. so what is the islamic republic resisting exactly in the region? mubarak is gone. so broadly the arab spring is weakening iran's position towards the arab spring in general. and also iran's own behavior, that has led to a decline in its reputation in the middle east. in 2009, the iranian regime reacted very violently toward demonstrations that occurred after the presidential election, and this damaged iran's credibility or had a lot of people in the region tell me that they view the iran regime as a very different manner after 2000. and
so this would present a severe crisis for the islamic republic's foreign policy. and hezbollah right now is feeling a lot of pressure because of support of the syrian regime, losing a lot of credibility on the arab streets, if you will. the arab spring is also funded militia in the islamic republic's foreign policy narrative. for years, saying it supports the average man and woman on the street in the face of what it termed to be u.s. and israeli imperialism. support for autocratic arab...
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policy playbook. we need to reframe the american conversation. we need law mamakers who are nervous about a challenge from the left and don't sell out so often, something that does not empower liberal wackobirds but demands d.c. and america lives up to a philosopher's ideal, what policies would you support, what society would you want if you had to choose before you knew where you would end up? if you had to choose through a veil of ignorance, how would you think about tax fairness or entitlements if you didn't know you would be rich or poor, or about affirmative action? you get the concept. there's a need for something new and smart that can guide america. i, for one, am ready for something new. and now to someone who is brand new every day. >> yes, sir. >> martin bashir. >> govern. it's friday may the 31st. and come on, speaker boehner. you know you want to. and the president is showing you how to do it. smile. ♪ >> if this sounds like deja vu all over again. >> an issue that there is is no fight
policy playbook. we need to reframe the american conversation. we need law mamakers who are nervous about a challenge from the left and don't sell out so often, something that does not empower liberal wackobirds but demands d.c. and america lives up to a philosopher's ideal, what policies would you support, what society would you want if you had to choose before you knew where you would end up? if you had to choose through a veil of ignorance, how would you think about tax fairness or...
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foreign policy or if he's got a man has more. nobody was allowed to make recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals of the military court in february but someone did and the freedom of the press foundation released mr manning's testimony in its entirety in this hour long testimony bradley manning in his own words explains how and why he leaked all those documents many of which revealed how the u.s. government covered up civilian casualties in human rights abuses during the wars in iraq and afghanistan he served as an intelligence analyst in the military and had access to all those documents the biggest leak in history let's take a listen to just one episode where bradley manning explains why he leaked the video of the apache helicopter gunning down boisterous journalists in baghdad and then targeting those who showed up to rescue the wounded including a van with children and that footage shocked the world. those. heroes. it was a. huge. for. me to see such a child. it seems right now is grisly manning who is the and under
foreign policy or if he's got a man has more. nobody was allowed to make recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals of the military court in february but someone did and the freedom of the press foundation released mr manning's testimony in its entirety in this hour long testimony bradley manning in his own words explains how and why he leaked all those documents many of which revealed how the u.s. government covered up civilian casualties in human rights abuses during the wars in iraq...
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he tells "foreign policy magazine" my position right now is that i want an answer to the question. that question totally unrelated to chuck hagel as defense secretary is what president obama was doing during the benghazi attack. hagel remains in limbo, as does defense secretary leon panetta, who isn't exactly sure when he will be able to return to his california walnut groves. >> this is, i believe, my final press conference here at the pentagon briefing room. there are moments when i thought i was part of the last act of an italian opera. you're not sure exactly when it would end, and when the fat lady would sing. >> for now the only certainty is much more congressional uncertainty. joy, does leon panetta need a shirt that says "i survived a chuck hagel filibuster and all i got was this lousy t-shirt?" just when he thinks it can't get worse, it's actually seemingly gotten worse. >> this is insane. i mean, last night i went through, and i was looking at the george w. bush cabinet nominations. none of which were filibustered. just for fun. just because i knew we were talking about i
he tells "foreign policy magazine" my position right now is that i want an answer to the question. that question totally unrelated to chuck hagel as defense secretary is what president obama was doing during the benghazi attack. hagel remains in limbo, as does defense secretary leon panetta, who isn't exactly sure when he will be able to return to his california walnut groves. >> this is, i believe, my final press conference here at the pentagon briefing room. there are moments...
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what does the president think abouthink--who do they think abt the president's foreign policy? what do they think about drone attacks. what do we think about america foreign policy. >> even though they went far into the surveillance, in reality this is a city traumatized by 9/11, it was horrific for people who lived there back then and those around the world. wasn't it appropriate to take heavy duty members? would it have been he negligence on the part of ray kelly's part not to? >> oh, without a doubt they needed to double these efforts, quadruple these efforts to ensure there wasn't a terrorist attack. what the book raises are questions about what would this look like? and of course this went on for years until matt and i started peeling back-- >> started writing articles about it. >> right, two years ago. what we found is something that new yorkers can debate. >> one of the big debates is racial profiling and how far the police department went in going after muslim communities. one of the philosophical reasons i guess that you describe in the process of how they went about t
what does the president think abouthink--who do they think abt the president's foreign policy? what do they think about drone attacks. what do we think about america foreign policy. >> even though they went far into the surveillance, in reality this is a city traumatized by 9/11, it was horrific for people who lived there back then and those around the world. wasn't it appropriate to take heavy duty members? would it have been he negligence on the part of ray kelly's part not to? >>...
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foreign policy in recording the despotic or band. in the spotlight once again oscar winning movie argo has outraged iran which is planning to sue over hollywood fearing mangieri. all change in china as the new party prepares to take control all eyes are on whether the revamped leadership can keep the growth going to surpass america's economy a few years. a contentious referendum that saw the folk in islands choose to remain british brings to light the story of another island as residents have no say when britain deprived them of their land. it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program now a full audio recording of bradley manning telling a military court why classify data to weaken leaks has itself been leaked despite a core ban manning is heard accusing u.s. army of not valuing human life in iraq and comparing troops to children torturing and with a magnifying glass now let's discuss this in more detail with tom barton here to tell what exactly did he say. well knowing the full
foreign policy in recording the despotic or band. in the spotlight once again oscar winning movie argo has outraged iran which is planning to sue over hollywood fearing mangieri. all change in china as the new party prepares to take control all eyes are on whether the revamped leadership can keep the growth going to surpass america's economy a few years. a contentious referendum that saw the folk in islands choose to remain british brings to light the story of another island as residents have...
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minister in charge of chavez's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period. we've got more analysis on what the post charges landscape of venezuela could look like on our website ot the economy avoid not to miss out on our invasion section there you'll find dramatic pictures from the recent protests that along too with plenty of other stories waiting for your online. checkered flag scummed on formula one's bahrain grand prix today a race which just hours before it began the sole protests against the elite event being hosted in the country that followed days of mass protests leading up to the race by activists angry that it was being used to mask the gulf kingdom's grave human rights abuses rallies for democratic reform have been ongoing for over two years often turning violent with more than seventy people killed on both sides so far the crackdown even extends to writing on twitter too with the country's most famous human rights activists now bill roger still behind bars for posting anti government messages but he's probably boyko reports now on his struggle.
minister in charge of chavez's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period. we've got more analysis on what the post charges landscape of venezuela could look like on our website ot the economy avoid not to miss out on our invasion section there you'll find dramatic pictures from the recent protests that along too with plenty of other stories waiting for your online. checkered flag scummed on formula one's bahrain grand prix today a race which just hours before it began the...
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policy. smilely. tavis join us sunday at 10030 a.m. astern here on c-span. >> next a look at how the media covered the trayvon martin case. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> wait a minute. i do not think anyone has ever introduced me and found that magazine i had in college. very well. thanks for having me here. thanks for that fantastic ntroduction. so, today i'm going to talk to you about what i call journalism and justice and how those things have coincided in the case of trayvon martin, or overlapped in the case of trayvon martin. o, if you have been here all day, you do not need a refresher on this course. if you have not, maybe you do. so, for what ever reason i will give a little bit of a run through of what facts we know in the case. on february 26, trayvon martin, 17-year-old boy from miami gardens, is in stamford, florida with his father. they are there to visit the father's girlfriend, who lives in a gated community. this is a gated community, not like what some people think
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policy it is very unique circumstances. but brazil is that the more significant end of the spectrum. in the mideast obama is abandonment of the strikes against syria the secretary of state moving towards detente with iran in military aid to egypt had alienated persian gulf allies like the united arab air of its -- united arab emirates and saudi arabia. >> can we count on anything he has told us? to the historical relationship is that worth anything? >> they expect more snowden revelations to surface and they have no working blueprint how to handle it. >> it is not that if we have a communications plan in our clutches how allegations may or may not be leaked. >> west german intelligence officials headed to washington next week one of the concerns is that the european allies may seek to use the espionage controversy as leverage with the ongoing trade talks. lou:, which more on the nsa in the for policy decisions and the stone wall of the administration throughout the broadcast. we will be right back. >> glitches, the text sea
policy it is very unique circumstances. but brazil is that the more significant end of the spectrum. in the mideast obama is abandonment of the strikes against syria the secretary of state moving towards detente with iran in military aid to egypt had alienated persian gulf allies like the united arab air of its -- united arab emirates and saudi arabia. >> can we count on anything he has told us? to the historical relationship is that worth anything? >> they expect more snowden...
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foreign policy and an internet newsletter called anti empire report we also have max abrams he is a terrorist expert and a fellow johns hopkins university and finally we cross the eunice he is a clinical associate professor at the university of maryland and founder of american dot com cross talk rose in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want for what is let's go to you first why is boston called terrorism but aurora sandy hook tucson and columbine not. that's a great question peter and let me start by saying that as a member of the a muslim community muslims who believe in the messiah mizzle are members we were the first muslim american organization to make it very clear that there is no concept of holy war in islam that there is no such thing as jihad against the infidel where you take a sword and try to convert the word now why is that important because the word islamic terrorism to me is an oxymoron i'm coming to exactly what you're asking me but the point is these differences will already exist there always will exist in the muslim community in america today in fact is asking th
foreign policy and an internet newsletter called anti empire report we also have max abrams he is a terrorist expert and a fellow johns hopkins university and finally we cross the eunice he is a clinical associate professor at the university of maryland and founder of american dot com cross talk rose in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want for what is let's go to you first why is boston called terrorism but aurora sandy hook tucson and columbine not. that's a great question peter...
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for the comment i made about the dangers foreign policy decisions since vietnam, it was not just the surge, but the overall war of choice owing into iraq. -- going into iraq. that particular decision made on the surge, but waas -- of the war was a bad dangerous decision since vietnam. aside from the costs that occurred in this country, aside from what that date to take our focus off of afghanistan, which was the original and real threat to this country, iraq was not. i always try to frame all of the different issues for i make a decision on anything. we could have differences in opinions. that is essentially why i took the position -- >> it is a fundamental difference of opinion, senator hagel. when there are 59 votes and that senate that spend our time trying to prevent that 60th, thank gofd for senator lieberma. your refusal to answer whether you are right or wrong about it will have an impact on my judgment as to whether to vote for your confirmation or not. i hope you'll reconsider the fact that you refuse to answer a fundamental question about an issue that took the lives of tho
for the comment i made about the dangers foreign policy decisions since vietnam, it was not just the surge, but the overall war of choice owing into iraq. -- going into iraq. that particular decision made on the surge, but waas -- of the war was a bad dangerous decision since vietnam. aside from the costs that occurred in this country, aside from what that date to take our focus off of afghanistan, which was the original and real threat to this country, iraq was not. i always try to frame all...
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the next day he broke with his more dovish advisers, that coupled with a sometimes hawkish foreign policy and concern about excessive deficits have led to argue he is not as liberal. arguing that conservatives may want to claim jfk as one of their own. new book, jfk, conservative. >> happy to be here. >> in this book, you tell us why jfk is a conservative? >> he pioneered supply side tax cuts and built up the military while restraining domestic spending and wanted to reform welfare. he appointed to the supreme court the justice who wrote the dissent in the abortion case of roe v. wade. he was religious and believed america was locked in the war against the godless soviet u.n. john. >> they were pretty godless, let's be real. the thing that jumped out to me, some of this obsession or fixation on the conservative aspect of kennedy's legacy leans heavily on religion, language and rhetoric and so the question there is, what do you say to people who say, sure, he positioned some of his ideas in universalistic or conservative context in order to appeal to everybody? >> you have to look at not j
the next day he broke with his more dovish advisers, that coupled with a sometimes hawkish foreign policy and concern about excessive deficits have led to argue he is not as liberal. arguing that conservatives may want to claim jfk as one of their own. new book, jfk, conservative. >> happy to be here. >> in this book, you tell us why jfk is a conservative? >> he pioneered supply side tax cuts and built up the military while restraining domestic spending and wanted to reform...
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minister in charge of chavez's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period. well you got more not less is what the post chavez landscape in venezuela could look like on our website r.t. dot com don't miss out on our invasion section there you'll find dramatic pictures of the recent protests that along with plenty of other stories waiting for you on line plenty of stories like these for you stuff fundamentalism take a look at how saudi arabia treats jailed al qaida extremists to a spa rather than a cell don't call explains why the government's war into pampering with imprisoning terrorists. the checkered flag now and for the world's bahrain grand prix race which just hours before a big protest against the elite of. the country it followed days and date of mass protests leading up to the race to buy activists angry that it was being used to mask the goal of kingdoms grave human rights abuses rallies for democratic reform been ongoing for over two years often turning violent with more than seventy people killed on both sides the crackdown even extends to writing
minister in charge of chavez's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period. well you got more not less is what the post chavez landscape in venezuela could look like on our website r.t. dot com don't miss out on our invasion section there you'll find dramatic pictures of the recent protests that along with plenty of other stories waiting for you on line plenty of stories like these for you stuff fundamentalism take a look at how saudi arabia treats jailed al qaida extremists...
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you talk about libber tarians, progressions - i'm a non-interventionist, foreign policy and personal liberties. the bale outs, if it did work, i don't think it was worthwhile. if it did work it's like saying, you know, if the bank - if a bank robber was successful and nobody got hurt and he got away hurt. he got away with the goods, he had a neat trick, no one was shot and benefi benefits. about. >> what about the jobs, there were estimates that a million jobs could be lost because of trickle-down effect. >> that's what they did, they caused a bubble and bust. blame it all - put it at the feet of the federal reserve for creating these problems. yes, that is a big problem. but to turn around and say free markets create unemployment, it's exactly the this. but you take the housing bubble. it's more clearly seen than, say, the bale out of the car companies, which i think was morally wrong and bad economic policy. the housing bubble - who made the money. everyone deserved an hour, give people easy credit and write laws to say you have to get credit if they are not creditworthy. everyone
you talk about libber tarians, progressions - i'm a non-interventionist, foreign policy and personal liberties. the bale outs, if it did work, i don't think it was worthwhile. if it did work it's like saying, you know, if the bank - if a bank robber was successful and nobody got hurt and he got away hurt. he got away with the goods, he had a neat trick, no one was shot and benefi benefits. about. >> what about the jobs, there were estimates that a million jobs could be lost because of...
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we did research education on foreign and defense policy issues. we do not conduct any classified research. we are an open source research institute. host: if you want to learn more about the foreign policy research institute, fpri.org and you can follow it on twitter. on the subject of the "serving or servicing the civil-military divide, edwin writes in on twitter. we will go to elsie on the phone from jacksonville, alabama. good morning, elsie. caller: good morning and happy veterans day. birmingham claims to have one of the oldest veterans day parades in the country. before the veterans day, we had armistice day. we had a parade when i was a child and that was quite a few years ago. i was a military wife. my husband was in the military before world war ii started. mr. noonan was talking about fort drummond, new york. my husband was stationed at the philippine islands and that is where he was when world war ii started. the towns that we lived in really supported the military. they were glad to have them there. for most of my life when we were in
we did research education on foreign and defense policy issues. we do not conduct any classified research. we are an open source research institute. host: if you want to learn more about the foreign policy research institute, fpri.org and you can follow it on twitter. on the subject of the "serving or servicing the civil-military divide, edwin writes in on twitter. we will go to elsie on the phone from jacksonville, alabama. good morning, elsie. caller: good morning and happy veterans day....
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policy in what is known as the asia pivot as you can see here on a map but america or the u.s. has been busy increasing its military presence around to the raising concerns among the chinese a leadership of her and leading china expert martin johnson as a washington is getting increasingly more tense over the growth of its asian rival . it's the whole way now in which the chinese leadership is constructed i mean if it's if it's going to shift it's not a shift now it will shift you know several years down the road i think what it means for a nation is that the united states i mean relations with the united states have steadily be getting more complicated and i think the reason for that is because the full you know china was very much still a developing country and a much weaker global power down the united states but china of course has been growing like crazy and is more and more present around the world in different continents and different countries so. interests are larval to be in conflict in more areas than with previously the case and i think this is the reason why it's g
policy in what is known as the asia pivot as you can see here on a map but america or the u.s. has been busy increasing its military presence around to the raising concerns among the chinese a leadership of her and leading china expert martin johnson as a washington is getting increasingly more tense over the growth of its asian rival . it's the whole way now in which the chinese leadership is constructed i mean if it's if it's going to shift it's not a shift now it will shift you know several...
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so it's really interesting how you get this interception of foreign policy and entertainment, and celebrity. by the time you are in the first world war, the government completely embraces america's mass entertainment, especially the techniques of getting the word out about the american perspective on world war i. so there's this very interesting government organization set up called the committee on public information. and this basically function as a propaganda arm of the u.s. government. not just putting messages out about what the world sees about america's involvement in the war but also it becomes deeply involved in those messages by censoring motion pictures. so in lower manhattan the naval intelligence is involved or they have several dozen people working in, i'm not sure they are dark rooms, maybe they have windows. they have physicists and a look at films that hollywood is producing and they basically say if you want to export this who oversees you have to get rid of these particular things. so all of the great american hollywood producers, directors, all of them have their film su
so it's really interesting how you get this interception of foreign policy and entertainment, and celebrity. by the time you are in the first world war, the government completely embraces america's mass entertainment, especially the techniques of getting the word out about the american perspective on world war i. so there's this very interesting government organization set up called the committee on public information. and this basically function as a propaganda arm of the u.s. government. not...
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let's talk about foreign policy. so, what did the founders that you talk about in the book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that again this is a matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue than the discussion and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it, and even then you had to very distinctive physicians. hamilton was pro-british and jefferson was pro french. and this is what led to huge split between those and this is how part of the federalist and the republicans were put with all sorts of other things i think that the hamiltonian position that washington accepted was america ought to be neutral had no navy didn't have any viet the time, had a strong interest in trade with both india and france with just basic body of delhi and self-interest that should remain neutral. neutrality favored the british because there is no american support for the british but a lot of americans wanted to go out and be privateers for franc
let's talk about foreign policy. so, what did the founders that you talk about in the book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that again this is a matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue than the discussion and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it, and even then you had to very distinctive physicians. hamilton was pro-british and jefferson was pro french. and this is what led to huge...
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it had nothing to do with foreign policy but there was an advantage keeping food stamps under the usda. it made it popular along city and world communities alike. in a surprise move the gop controlled house stripped it from the farm bill and forced a separate vote. in september it passed $40 billion in stofood stamp cu over 10 years. democrats vow to restore that spending. it is not only wasteful but can cause the poor to rely on government. >> it was onned minds of those who launched the war on poverty. >> the days of the goal in our country are numbered. our american answer to poverty is not to make the poor more secure in their po vert but to reach down and help them lift themselves. >> it sounded really good at the time. dwifr give a hand up not a handout. >> charles murray was with a 21-year-old history major at harvard a liberal policy walkoming of age in heady times. >> we were optimistic because we never tried to use government programs to eradicate poverty. >> murray would come to understand how tough a few years later. after earning a ph.d. at mit he went to work for a washin
it had nothing to do with foreign policy but there was an advantage keeping food stamps under the usda. it made it popular along city and world communities alike. in a surprise move the gop controlled house stripped it from the farm bill and forced a separate vote. in september it passed $40 billion in stofood stamp cu over 10 years. democrats vow to restore that spending. it is not only wasteful but can cause the poor to rely on government. >> it was onned minds of those who launched the...
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washington's been trying to gain a stronger foothold in asia continuously seen as one of its top foreign policy priorities and show support to its allies japan and south korea it's been expanding its military reach in the region martin china expert martin jakes thinks the more china grows as a power though the more concerned the u.s. may get. the whole way now in which the chinese leadership is confronted i mean if it's going to shift it's not a shift now it will shift into several years down the road i think what would it mean for nations with the united states i mean relations with the united states have to be getting more complicated and i think the reason for that is because the fool you know china was very much still a developing country a much weaker global power down the united states but china of course has the growing like crazy is more and more prisons around the world in different continents and different countries so. interests are built to be in conflict areas that was previously the case i think this is the reason why it's getting more complicated it's a question that's a b
washington's been trying to gain a stronger foothold in asia continuously seen as one of its top foreign policy priorities and show support to its allies japan and south korea it's been expanding its military reach in the region martin china expert martin jakes thinks the more china grows as a power though the more concerned the u.s. may get. the whole way now in which the chinese leadership is confronted i mean if it's going to shift it's not a shift now it will shift into several years down...
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you are republicans trying to subvert the foreign policy of the united states over an old and bitter grudge? let's bring in ari melber and democrat strategist julian ep sto epstein. what is senator mccain's problem? is he trying to defend a mode okur president bush or is he trying to defend a failed war in iraq? >> i think it's more iraq where we know senator mccain has long stood by our presence there and adding troops there, but bottom line if you take this as the mccain filibuster standard, then no one in any democratic administration ever gets a vote because, guess what? a lot of them have good faith and i think well-grounded disagreements with george w. bush. so this cannot be the standard. it's not defensible on its own terms and that's the problem. they are erecting a supermajority hurdle for all of this legislation and all of these nominees. this is an old problem from the way the republicans have been acting and it doesn't stand up because by this standard again you would not let anyone serve in government that you di agreed with. >> but it's based on a grudge. it's based on
you are republicans trying to subvert the foreign policy of the united states over an old and bitter grudge? let's bring in ari melber and democrat strategist julian ep sto epstein. what is senator mccain's problem? is he trying to defend a mode okur president bush or is he trying to defend a failed war in iraq? >> i think it's more iraq where we know senator mccain has long stood by our presence there and adding troops there, but bottom line if you take this as the mccain filibuster...
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. >> for more now on just how the nsa revelations will impact foreign policy is tom rodden, a writer for "the guardian" thank you for your time? >> thank you. >> there is a camp that says everyone spies on everyone. what is all of the outrage about? how accurate is that? if there is a world where everyone spies on everyone, are there rules in that world for how to do it? >> well, that's a very good question. i think that, yes, everyone does spy on everyone. >> that's especially true with france, tgsc, the french equivalent of the cia and nsa. it's a combined intelligence agency. it's known for its aggression in terms of collection operations including against the u.s. the u.s. intelligence community regards france as one of the key counterintelligence scope adversaries which means the french regularly spy on the united states. so everyone does do this. but the problem becomes the calibration of what type of operation do you conduct? and here, when we look at merkel in germany, a firm atlantisis, an allie of the united states over the long-term. the damage that spying on merkel may do
. >> for more now on just how the nsa revelations will impact foreign policy is tom rodden, a writer for "the guardian" thank you for your time? >> thank you. >> there is a camp that says everyone spies on everyone. what is all of the outrage about? how accurate is that? if there is a world where everyone spies on everyone, are there rules in that world for how to do it? >> well, that's a very good question. i think that, yes, everyone does spy on everyone....
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foreign policy has no role in creating threats against the country but we know the number one thing driving recruitment for the taliban and al qaeda forces in pakistan and yemen are u.s. drone strikes so they say well don't worry about anything else just give us these powers and we'll take care of everything but in fact that's not the case it's us foreign policy that's the real culprit if we want to be safer and we shouldn't be giving up our constitutional rights to this small ball of people living in secrecy ok susan you want to jump in a new york own hand. wow look i can't agree with the idea that the main threat to u.s. security is the u.s. has own foreign policy i do think that it's essential to keep in mind that these policies have consequences that they can turn people against the united states we've seen that in this case quite concretely with the rifts that have opened up with german chancellor angela merkel with brazilian president dilma rousseff canceling a visit to washington those are pretty serious they put the president in iraq word situation and i don't think there's any ques
foreign policy has no role in creating threats against the country but we know the number one thing driving recruitment for the taliban and al qaeda forces in pakistan and yemen are u.s. drone strikes so they say well don't worry about anything else just give us these powers and we'll take care of everything but in fact that's not the case it's us foreign policy that's the real culprit if we want to be safer and we shouldn't be giving up our constitutional rights to this small ball of people...
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. >> the over -- overriding part of this business insider noted for their in depth foreign policy and reporting and investigation, i will read this sentence, while indefinite detain meant without trial may be morally offensive, the overriding philosophy on base these days is to treat the detainees really well. let's imagine that you have been pulled from a battlefield and you will not be charged with anything. you will be here in a cage. it is a very, very nice cage. you don't know what you are being charged for. you don't know if you are ever going to get out. you don't know anything. maybe that is not going to be treated absurdly well. maybe that is a psychological horror show regardless of anything else. yes the basic charge of oh they are using a hunger strike to get attention, yes. the democrats have stopped caring about guantanamo bay now that they run it. 24r* is still discretionary power in the department of defense. they certify this every year. if they wanted to, they could say this sucks and we are closing it down, and it would happen. >> i agree with everything matt said,
. >> the over -- overriding part of this business insider noted for their in depth foreign policy and reporting and investigation, i will read this sentence, while indefinite detain meant without trial may be morally offensive, the overriding philosophy on base these days is to treat the detainees really well. let's imagine that you have been pulled from a battlefield and you will not be charged with anything. you will be here in a cage. it is a very, very nice cage. you don't know what...
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foreign policy was the motivating factor behind the attacks but i digress then maddow compares and we're all lucky teachings to people who aren't satisfied with the official nine eleven story. think about how dangerous that rhetoric is for one second what does it say about the nine eleven victims' family members were unfulfilled the investigation what about the countless millions of people around the world who are unsatisfied with what the government told us happened and why or about the groups of firefighters architects scientists and world leaders who have also expressed their doubts should they all be flagged as potential terrorist threats too but look this is the first time rachel's acted as an echo chamber for the government's position on nine eleven she was dedicated a whole segment on her show just to promote it. two of the best things ever published about the nine eleven attacks are these two books i think that was a really admirable approach to try to make widely accessible the findings of the nine eleven report but the even better thing they did is that they published an offici
foreign policy was the motivating factor behind the attacks but i digress then maddow compares and we're all lucky teachings to people who aren't satisfied with the official nine eleven story. think about how dangerous that rhetoric is for one second what does it say about the nine eleven victims' family members were unfulfilled the investigation what about the countless millions of people around the world who are unsatisfied with what the government told us happened and why or about the groups...
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foreign policy in a recording leaked despite a court back. in the spotlight once again oscar winning movie argo has outraged iran which is planning to sue over hollywood fear mongering. change in china is the new party chief prepares to take control all eyes are on whether the revamped leadership can keep the growth going to surpass america's economy in a few years. and a contentious referendum that saw the four can dial and choose to remain british brings to light the story of another island whose residents had no say when britain deprived them of their land. and i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow now a full already a recording of bradley manning telling a military court why he gave classified data to wiki leaks has itself been leaked despite a court ban manning is heard accusing the u.s. army of not valuing human life in iraq and comparing troops to children torturing and with a magnifying glass more on this now from artie's tom barton. he did use very strong words in the manning when describing the material he gave
foreign policy in a recording leaked despite a court back. in the spotlight once again oscar winning movie argo has outraged iran which is planning to sue over hollywood fear mongering. change in china is the new party chief prepares to take control all eyes are on whether the revamped leadership can keep the growth going to surpass america's economy in a few years. and a contentious referendum that saw the four can dial and choose to remain british brings to light the story of another island...
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policy. >> guest: i suppose i would concede that. i don't know what else to say about president bush. i don't think he was concerned substantively about a great deal of things and certainly not about black issues. so i am at a loss for words to comment about that, about. . >> host: rodney, go ahead with your question or comment for randall robinson. >> caller: it is a pleasure and honor to speak with you. the reason i was calling is a black -- black wealth disparities in the american bank system where we lost most of our wealth and assets due to fraud in the housing sector and lower wages. under the obama administration why african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the previous administration? >> guest: the unemployment among blacks is now 16 plus%. so whites are doing marginally better, blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? there are other market forces and factors, i suppose. but that is a good question to put to the president. i should say
policy. >> guest: i suppose i would concede that. i don't know what else to say about president bush. i don't think he was concerned substantively about a great deal of things and certainly not about black issues. so i am at a loss for words to comment about that, about. . >> host: rodney, go ahead with your question or comment for randall robinson. >> caller: it is a pleasure and honor to speak with you. the reason i was calling is a black -- black wealth disparities in the...
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bush on foreign policy and colin powell on foreign policy and brent scowcroft on foreign policy and certainly your father, dr. brzezinski, on foreign policy. mark halperin, he is so in the mainstream of washington u.s. foreign policy except, of course, unless you're a neoconservative. and i'm not knocking neocons. i love dan senor. i have one as a friend. >> i have a brother. >> i expect bill kristol -- and mika's brother's a neocon. holy cow, the guy wants to invade, like, canada. i understand, i can respect that and them, but to say chuck hagel is outside of the mainstream of political thought when it comes to u.s. foreign policy, that's just not true. >> you take him on paper, his resume for this job is sterling. he's close to vice president biden. that's something that no one could say was anything but a big positive. but i will tell you, you look at the sunday shows yesterday, and in general, this debate over the last two weeks, the dog that is not barking is vocal support from senate democrats. there's a reason -- or several reasons -- why senate democrats are not out there defending ch
bush on foreign policy and colin powell on foreign policy and brent scowcroft on foreign policy and certainly your father, dr. brzezinski, on foreign policy. mark halperin, he is so in the mainstream of washington u.s. foreign policy except, of course, unless you're a neoconservative. and i'm not knocking neocons. i love dan senor. i have one as a friend. >> i have a brother. >> i expect bill kristol -- and mika's brother's a neocon. holy cow, the guy wants to invade, like, canada....
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foreign policy as a motivating factor for their it's. shouldn't really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that component all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violence on us have in their mind some motivation of us foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east in a rock and a dentist and pakistan and yemen the israel palestine conflict and on and on and on a lot of what obama has done in terms of trying to be less aggressive towards the muslim world to simply make his mission secret the bush administration was quite open obama has chosen to make all of this covert he's been the drone war which is a secret war that nobody will admit to in pakistan and yemen and somalia a lot of this is still going on and he still generating fierce hatred from a lot of people who resent u.s. aggression the mother of the boston marathon bombing suspects was put on a federal terror watch list eighteen months before the attack american officials reveale
foreign policy as a motivating factor for their it's. shouldn't really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that component all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violence on us have in their mind some motivation of us foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east in a rock and a dentist and pakistan and yemen the israel palestine conflict and on and on and on a lot of what obama has done in...
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security advisor privately expressing disgust with the decision time confidants afterwards this is a bad foreign-policy decision. except that, a lot of people feel it is just too hot of a situation on the ground in egypt, but we have confirmed the obama administration is cutting some of the egyptian aid to the interim government. back to the market, we have lost 20 points in the past 15 minutes. all eyes might be on janet yellen, we cannot forget another pressing issue happening right now. the ongoing fiscal stalemate in washington again less than nine days away from in the debt ceiling. market distracted by the nomination announcement but what will happen next week as we get closer and closer to that day, october 17. chief international strategist. paul, we're just hearing from the former fed insiders who said really it looks terrible for the u.s. on a global national international stage if we hit the debt ceiling but give us a sense for investment standpoint of what it means for people's money. >> investors know anything can happen but they've also seen the sort of drama unfold in washington before,
security advisor privately expressing disgust with the decision time confidants afterwards this is a bad foreign-policy decision. except that, a lot of people feel it is just too hot of a situation on the ground in egypt, but we have confirmed the obama administration is cutting some of the egyptian aid to the interim government. back to the market, we have lost 20 points in the past 15 minutes. all eyes might be on janet yellen, we cannot forget another pressing issue happening right now. the...
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are we about to foreign policy to protect her interests quite are we involved in foreign policy to project ideology into the world? >> guest: >> host: were not in the dispensable nation. 25 years after the creation of the constitution not too far from here come the paper and the white house that the country very much at risk. so the people that you write about in the book, the contemporary authors, how do they translate or try to train late with the frankenstein set to contemporary debates about foreign policy in iraq, afghanistan? >> guest: a lot of to quote washington's farewell address and say we should be involved. there tends to be a very nativist echoing through those folks and that discourse. >> host: what you mean by nativist? >> guest: let the world friday we just need to pull back and take care of ourselves. i don't sense among the contemporary conservative writers, i don't get a sense of foreign policy coherence do we do with domestic issues. some of them are pro-intervention, neoconservative, breaking. we need to explore our democracy. a lot of them are much more we need to pul
are we about to foreign policy to protect her interests quite are we involved in foreign policy to project ideology into the world? >> guest: >> host: were not in the dispensable nation. 25 years after the creation of the constitution not too far from here come the paper and the white house that the country very much at risk. so the people that you write about in the book, the contemporary authors, how do they translate or try to train late with the frankenstein set to contemporary...
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foreign policies future u.s. foreign policy future i'm joined now by michael brooks he is the producer of the majority report welcome there michael so good this be seen as a chance to talk more about president obama's drone campaign can we expect the the senate to publicly debate this and bring this issue to the forefront it's an issue that has been shrouded in secrecy. it's great to be with you and i think that that's the best case scenario for this nomination is that it might lead to some actual conversation about the drone program and sort of shed more public laid on it unfortunately i don't think that that's what's going to happen in the senate i think brennan will get pushed on other issues and facts and just a couple minutes ago senator graham i think as threatens and put a hold possibly on his nomination around benghazi so i think you know you might see other issues i don't think this issue is going to have as much scrutiny as it definitely should. might not but there are important issues of course the dro
foreign policies future u.s. foreign policy future i'm joined now by michael brooks he is the producer of the majority report welcome there michael so good this be seen as a chance to talk more about president obama's drone campaign can we expect the the senate to publicly debate this and bring this issue to the forefront it's an issue that has been shrouded in secrecy. it's great to be with you and i think that that's the best case scenario for this nomination is that it might lead to some...
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well i think american foreign policy is in a bit of a stalemate with regard to syria first of all in a stalemate because they would like to intervene directly they would like to achieve regime change with the assad regime as they did with gadhafi in in libya but the chinese and russian veto at the u.n. has prevented them from going that far therefore responded by a covert intervention through their lives in the in the middle east through turkey through the gulf states and so forth and so on that's less than the pro western elements in the syrian opposition want they're constantly disappointed in the americans ability to make a decisive play and therefore make a decisive difference with the battle with the regime on the other hand the americans are constantly disappointed with the opposition because the opposition doesn't have a considerable debt to support in syria itself the actual fighting is on the ground is being conducted by some forces that are sympathetic to the to the americans and we should note here the free syrian army bombardment of hezbollah positions in in lebanon recen
well i think american foreign policy is in a bit of a stalemate with regard to syria first of all in a stalemate because they would like to intervene directly they would like to achieve regime change with the assad regime as they did with gadhafi in in libya but the chinese and russian veto at the u.n. has prevented them from going that far therefore responded by a covert intervention through their lives in the in the middle east through turkey through the gulf states and so forth and so on...
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status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the different population i think so i think this is a bit of good or bad first it won't go ahead ok fine. well i mean i think there's a lot more to the pivot to asia than simply containment of china i think that that's a very simplistic rendering of the idea and i wouldn't be oh i also wouldn't be overly sanguine about the ceiling issue the fact that there is never been a threat to the ceilings doesn't mean that there never could be a threat and i think you know the united states has a legitimate interest in protecting the sea lanes in global commerce and it isn't just washington's interest you also have to consider several of the other countries in the region that have very very advanced trade relations with the u.s. japan and south korea the philip
status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the different population i think so i think this is a bit of good or bad first it won't go ahead ok fine. well i mean i think there's a lot more to the...
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policy front. peter is live with more on this story. >> and we saw hundreds of americans from across the political spectrum march through the streets of d.c. yesterday, trying to make enough noise outside the capitol to convince congress to pass some legislation that would ban nsa mass surveillance programs, but you fast forward to this morning, the chairman of the house homeland subcommittee on counterintelligent peter king, said it's not smart to address these data collection systems in public because we don't want the enemy to learn too much. we also heard from another republican, mike rogers, he defended this surveillance programs and used a historical example to address the perils of ignoring what's happening with our enemies and our friends. >> think about this. in the 1930s, we had this debate before. and we decided we were going to kind of turn off our ability to even listen to friends who have -- remember, sometimes our friends have relationships with our adversaries, and we say we're not
policy front. peter is live with more on this story. >> and we saw hundreds of americans from across the political spectrum march through the streets of d.c. yesterday, trying to make enough noise outside the capitol to convince congress to pass some legislation that would ban nsa mass surveillance programs, but you fast forward to this morning, the chairman of the house homeland subcommittee on counterintelligent peter king, said it's not smart to address these data collection systems in...
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foreign leaders across the world to perpetuate kind of global policies yet we find it so hard to believe that they would do that actually within this own country within our own country and the weird thing is when we did this overseas we started seeing assassinations in our own country it was in the fifty's and early sixty's that we were targeting people in egypt and in latin america and then we see it sure within our own country and i think that's what happens the cia gets skills they migrate back into american paul of course and one of the most dominant conspiracies ever and i hate even using that term because every you know conspiracies are real so it's really a basis to even use this to explain them in. a way but the assassination of j.f.k. i mean i'm talking about a poll that just came out and may of this year that i wanted to show you majority of americans believe that oswald did not act alone in killing j.f.k. why is it that this is nothing more than a conspiracy by the establishment mainstream media when the majority of people think this and the but the political class will not sa
foreign leaders across the world to perpetuate kind of global policies yet we find it so hard to believe that they would do that actually within this own country within our own country and the weird thing is when we did this overseas we started seeing assassinations in our own country it was in the fifty's and early sixty's that we were targeting people in egypt and in latin america and then we see it sure within our own country and i think that's what happens the cia gets skills they migrate...